touchstone
noun /ˈtʌtʃstəʊn/
/ˈtʌtʃstəʊn/
[usually singular] (formal)- touchstone (of/for something) something that provides a standard against which other things are compared and/or judged
试金石；检验标准 - the touchstone for quality
检验质量的标准
- Grammar was regarded as the touchstone of all language performance.
语法被认为是所有语言表现的试金石。 - He has been a guiding beacon in my life and a touchstone of human integrity.
他一直是我生命中的指路明灯，是人类正直的试金石。 - She remained for them a touchstone of good sense.
对他们来说，她仍然是明智的试金石。 - The nineteenth-century struggle to reconstitute Poland was a touchstone for liberals and socialists alike.
十九世纪重建波兰的斗争是自由主义者和社会主义者的试金石。 - The way medicines are sold has become one of the touchstone issues of modern capitalism.
药品的销售方式已经成为现代资本主义的试金石之一。
- the touchstone for quality